After spending two nights in police cell, Human Right Defenders Coalition (HRDC) Vice Chairperson Gift Trapence and Reverend Macdonard Sembereka will appear in court today for formal charges.

Trapence and Mtambo were arrested on Sunday on grounds that they were planning to seal State Residences on March 25.

The arrest of the two has attracted public outcry as came barely hours after President Peter Mutharika warned HRDC that both the police and army will use “full force” to stop them from holding demonstrations at State House.

The two are currently being kept in separate police cells in the commercial capital Blantyre.

Meanwhile HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo is handing himself today at Police Headquarters in Lilongwe.